ABC to Follow the Pack,
Offer Candidates Air Time

a Wall Street Journal Staff Reporter

Updated May 8, 1996 12:01 a.m. ET

NEW YORK -- Responding to public interest group proposals that the broadcast networks give free time to presidential candidates, ABC is expected to announce Wednesday that it will offer one hour of prime time during the campaign's final week for the candidates to talk directly to viewers and each other.

All the major candidates would be invited to appear simultaneously on the program, which would have no prepared questions and no ABC...